C. Douglass Buck

Clayton Douglass Buck (21 March 1890-27 January 1965) was Governor of Delaware (R) from 15 January 1929 to 19 January 1937 (succeeding Robert P. Robinson and preceding Richard C. McMullen) and US Senator from Delaware from 3 January 1943 to 3 January 1949 (succeeding James H. Hughes and preceding J. Allen Frear, Jr.).

Biography
Clayton Douglass Buck was born in New Castle, Delaware in 1890, and he served in the US Army during World War I. He married the daughter of US Senator T. Coleman DuPont, and he served as Chief Engineer of a superhighway project in his state from 1921 to 1929, overseeing the fulfillment of his father-in-law's dream of successfully creating a highway in Delaware. He served as Governor of Delaware from 1929 to 1937 and as Senator from 1943 to 1949, serving as a Republican Party member. He was affiliated with the conservative Taftite Republicans, backing Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater in their presidential campaigns. He died in New Castle in 1965 at the age of 74.